Where Credit Is Due

Duration: 28

Year Published: 1991

Creator: National Film Board of Canada

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: In east Africa, which has the highest urbanization rate in the world, urban women are caught between their traditional role in village society and the need to make an income. Women who leave the support of rural villages to find a better life in the city discover that entrepreneurship far outweighs wage labor in availability and income, but most do not have the capital to start a small business. The banking system, which is based on the colonial system of collateral, generally refuses loans to women who, through tribal law, have customarily been prohibited from land inheritance. The Kenya Women's Finance Trust is profiled as an example of a credit cooperative for women modeled after rural traditions in which groups of women agree to support members in instances of sickness, childbirth, or other needs.

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